Shadowrun: The Board Game is the result of a new design after an initial design was rejected, Coleman explained. “We now have the game I want,” he said. The release, originally planned for 2014 (see "Catalyst"s Ambitious Plans for 'The Year of Shadowrun'"), is now slated for Gen Con.

Coleman described the play. "You build a team, you level up your runners, you get them gear, you cyber them up, whatever it’s going to take," he said. "You go on missions, you get money, so you can go on the mission to win the overall game." MSRP is expected to be $50-$60.

In fairness, I'm not sure. I always thought that Hostile Takeover was more focused on the Corps and the machinations whereas this appears to be more focused on a team/crew of runners. But, then, one never knows...

This almost sounds like a merger of our two missing games, The team building, outfitting, and skirmish that would have been Sprawl Gangers with the board game play and mechanics of Hostile Takeover.

I was looking forward to the original concept of Hostile Takeover but I can get that, somewhat, in New Angelus by FFG.

I am in for both games but would still like to see the original concepts of Sprawl Gangers and Hostile Takeover make it to the table.Playing from the Corp side of things is sadly lacking and would be fun to explore as a board game.

It was set to fill the niche Necromunda left, and somehow managed to delay so badly Games Workshop got around to looking at reviving Necromunda with still no word on a release with the last updates two-three years ago.

Not seen too much about either, tbh. I suspect that Sprawl Ops is a team-based board game while Prime Runners is a new edition of Crossfire (maybe incorporating some of the updates used in Dragon Fire).